.Potlach.

Potlach is a form of festivity so incomprehensible by today’s standards that was banned in the beggining of the century. It was an extremely important element of the Indian culture , as it was used in multiple ways and meanings.

First of all the tribe would gather around in the fire place of the camp and once a year they would exchange the goods that every family possessed with the others. In this way every person of the tribe created an interconnection, a form of an owing bond . This pre – commercial form of goods circulation is founded on the need to fight excess. The same excess that created the base for capital , with it came the pinning down of our civilization as a consequence .

Taken this into effect it is now easier to understand how the fundamental issue of the spatial life expectancy is indissoluble bonded with the institutionalized forms of a society. As the deurbanist saying went “it is hard to understand why our buildings stand the same for decades , when simultaneously we , human beings , change every given minute..”

We are bonded by social relations anymore, only by processes…

“We're not interested in a fond place in your memories. But concrete powers are at stake. A few hundred people haphazardly determine the thought of an era. Whether they know it or not, they are at our disposal. By sending Potlatch to effectively positioned people, we can interrupt the circuit when and where we please. Some readers have been chosen arbitrarily. You have a chance to be one of them. “

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